Section 40.3 (1) of the bill states that "the owner of copyright in a work or other subject-matter is not entitled to any remedy other than an injunction against a provider of information location tools who infringes that copyright by making or caching a reproduction of the work or other subject matter." According to Knopf, this paragraph implies that information location tools (like search engines) would infringe copyright if they archive any material that is copyright.
One such example of how this is a problem would be Google Image Search. When you search for something, Google displays thumbnail's of images. However courts have leaned in the "fair use" direction for the thumbnail images supplied by search engines, saying usually that hey are no competition to any copyrighted work. "The way it is drafted strongly suggests that the reproduction and caching activity done by Google or the Wayback Machine at archive.org and similar essential research tools would be illegal in Canada," Knopf says. "It could be read by a court as a 'deeming' provision, which was hopefully not the intention."
However he would like to remind everyone that this bill has only so far had its first reason, so there is a lot of time for this issue to be fixed, or for that section to be removed completely. He stands firmly by the search engines in this one. "We shouldn't cripple the Googles of the world by imposing copyright chill on the very basis of their architecture. In fact, they perform a very useful service to copyright owners by enabling easy detection of infringement. The owners should go after the actual infringer, rather than effectively shooting the messenger." he said.
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